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9Truth is Not the Primary Epistemic GoalIn Matthias Steup & John Turri (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Epistemology, Blackwell. pp. 285-295. 2013.
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56Intellectual Humility: Lessons from the Preface ParadoxRes Philosophica 93 (3): 1-532. 2016.One response to the preface paradox—the paradox that arises when each claim in a book is justified for the author and yet in the preface the author avers that errors remain—counsels against the preface belief. It is this line of thought that poses a problem for any view that places a high value on intellectual humility. If we become suspicious of preface beliefs, it will be a challenge to explain how expressions of fallibility and intellectual humility are appropriate, whether voiced verbally or…Read more
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54Further Thoughts on Agent ReliabilismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 66 (2): 466-480. 2003.Though I find the project significant and unprecedented in this way, I am not convinced that it is entirely successful, and I will try to explain here the grounds of my concern. We can begin with Greco’s list of requirements for an adequate theory of knowledge, and the relationship he sees between simple reliabilism and his own theory, agent reliabilism.
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4Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Volume 7 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2016.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.
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156Coherentists' DistractionsPhilosophical Topics 23 (1): 257-274. 1995.The heart of coherentism is found in two aspects, one negative and one positive. On the negative side, coherentism is a contrary of foundationalism, the view that the epistemic status of our beliefs ultimately traces to, or derives from, basic beliefs.
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225Reply to SimionLogos and Episteme 8 (1): 113-116. 2017.Mona Simion questions whether there is a distinction between taking back an assertion and taking back only the content of an assertion, as I have claimed. After arguing against the distinction in question, Simion grants that there is a difference between the cases that I use to illustrate the distinction, and thus turns to the task of explaining the difference in a way that keeps it from undermining the knowledge norm. The explanation she offers is in terms of a distinction between doing somethi…Read more
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Five Questions about EpistemologyIn Duncan Pritchard & Vincent Hendricks (eds.), Epistemology: 5 Questions, Automatic Press/vip. 2008.
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``The Rational Significance of Reflective Ascent"In Trent Dougherty (ed.), Evidentialism and its Critics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2011.
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``Virtue Epistemology"In Sven Bernecker & Duncan Pritchard (eds.), Routledge Companion to Epistemology, Routledge. 2010.
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121Can a coherence theory appeal to appearance states?Philosophical Studies 67 (3): 197-217. 1992.Coherence theorists have universally defined justification as a relation only among (the contents of) belief states, in contradistinction to other theories, such as some versions of foundationalism, which define justification as a relation on belief states and appearance states.
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45The Intellectual Virtues and the Life of the Mind (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (4): 973-976. 1994.
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41``Nozickian Epistemology and the Question of Closure"Croatian Journal of Philosophy 3 (3): 351-364. 2004.Nozick’s contribution to the epistemology of the last half of the twentieth century includes addressing the question of whether knowledge is closed under known implication. I argue that the question of closure provides a serious obstacle to Nozickian approaches to epistemology
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``Resurrection, Heaven, and Hell"In Charles Taliaferro & Paul Draper (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion, Routledge. pp. 630-639. 2009.
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1``Divine Conservation and the Persistence of the World"In Thomas V. Morris (ed.), Divine and Human Action: Essays in the Metaphysics of Theism, Cornell University Press. pp. 13-49. 1988.
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53Is there an 'us' in 'justification'?Synthese 62 (1). 1985.A critical question for epistemologists is whether there are any inter-subjective requirements for having a justified belief C whether there is an >us= in >justification=. One recent epistemologist that has addressed this issue is Keith Lehrer. In Knowledge, Lehrer presents a..
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Plantinga's proper function account of warrantIn J. J. Kvanvig (ed.), Warrant and Contemporary Epistemology, Rowman and Littlefield, Savage, Maryland. 1996.Plantinga thus offers an approach that begins by assessing the faculties or abilities of a cognitive system or agent. Once such an assessment is complete, the epistemologist is in a position to infer the epistemic status of the doxastic products of those faculties or abilities.
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4Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion Volume 5 (edited book)Oxford University Press UK. 2014.Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion is an annual volume offering a regular snapshot of state-of-the-art work in this longstanding area of philosophy that has seen an explosive growth of interest over the past half century. Under the guidance of a distinguished editorial board, it publishes exemplary papers in any area of philosophy of religion.
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1``Scientific Naturalism and the Value of Knowledge"In Thomas M. Crisp, Matthew Davidson & David Vander Laan (eds.), Knowledge and Reality: Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga, Springer. pp. 193-214. 2006.
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Philosophical reflection concerning heaven and hell has focused on the place of such doctrines in the great monotheistic religions emanating from the religion of the ancient people of Israel--Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. The philosophical issues that arise concerning these doctrines is not limited to such traditions, however. Consider, for example, the doctrine of hell. Any religion promises certain benefits to its adherents, and these benefits require some contrast that befalls, or might b…Read more
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